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EGER, AQIBA (1761–1837)

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Originally appearing in Volume V09, Page 12 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.

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EGER, AQIBA (1761–1837) , Jewish See also:

SCHOLAR, SCHOLARSHIP

scholar, was for the last twenty-five years of his See also:

LIFE

life See also:

RABBI

rabbi of See also:

Posen. He was a rigorous casuist of the old school, and his See also:

CHIEF (from Fr. chef, head, Lat. caput)

chief See also:

WORKS

works were legal notes on the See also:

TALMUD

Talmud and the See also:

CODE (Lat. codex)

code of See also:

QARO (or CARO), JOSEPH BEN EPHRAIM (1488-1575)

Qaro (q.v.). He believed that religious See also:

EDUCATION

education was enough, and thus opposed the party which favoured See also:

SECULAR (Lat. saecularis, of or belonging to an age or generation, saeculum)

secular See also:

SCHOOLS

schools. He was a determined foe of the reform See also:

MOVEMENT

movement, which began to make itself See also:

FELT (cognate with Ger. Filz, Du. vilt, Swed. and Dan. fill; the root is unknown; the word has given Med. Lat. filtrum, " filter ")

felt in his See also:

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